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SHERLOCK, Season 2 on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY

The new season of Sherlock, with three new episodes, begins on Sunday May 6, on PBS. This contemporary series is the latest in a long tradition of Sherlock Holmes books, spin-offs, adaptations, sequels, prequels, updates, mash-ups, graphic novels, movies, comics, etc. Introduced in the classic Arthur Conan Doylestories, Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, is an indelible character, with almost supernatural skills of deduction, who seems to live on and on. There are as many versions of Sherlock Holmes as there are fans. "Excellent! I cried. Elementary said he."

The Titanic tragedy / William Seil.Sherlock Holmes boards the Titanic on a government mission along with Dr. Watson, but when the U.S. Navy's submarine plans are stolen, the detectives try to uncover the thief before tragedy strikes the ship.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or on the segregation of the queen / Laurie B. KingIn 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his own-until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.

What would happen if you asked eighteen top writers who don't normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes?

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes novel / Anthony HorowitzIt is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon

The Sherlockian / Graham MooreWhen literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.